Hanover Schools Superintendent Michael Gill announced his resignation Tuesday, ending a nearly decade-long stint with the school division.
In a letter to parents, Gill wrote that he felt the School Board would need a different leader headed into the future.
Gill could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Michael Gill, seen in 2018, announced his resignation as superintendent of Hanover County Public Schools on Tuesday.
“I recognize that the School Board has new goals and objectives it wishes to achieve. To accomplish this, a new leader is needed to work with the Board in these future endeavors. With that in mind, I wanted to share with you that I offered the School Board my resignation this afternoon,” Gill wrote in the letter.
His resignation requires School Board action to be officially accepted. A special meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday to discuss the resignation.
School Board Chair Bob May wrote in a statement that the board is searching for an interim superintendent to begin “as soon as reasonably possible.”
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“We wish to thank Dr. Gill for his services to the Hanover County Public Schools and wish him well in all future endeavors,” May wrote in his statement.
Reached by phone, May said he could not comment on the reason for Gill’s resignation. He added that the board is interested in finding a replacement quickly, but won’t rush the process by accepting someone that doesn’t have “Hanover values and Hanover standards.”
Gill led Hanover schools through the COVID-19 pandemic, where the division became the first in the state to return to school five days per week.
In 2019, he was named the region’s best superintendent by the Virginia Association of School Superintendents. The Times-Dispatch honored him as a Person of the Year in 2018.
Hanover Schools is the 15th largest division in the state with around 17,000 students. The division has been recognized 10 times by the National Blue Ribbon Schools program and routinely tests well above the state average.
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